Scowcroft Names Diplomats and Intelligence Officers to top National Security Posts

By ROBERT PEAR, Special to the New York Times

Published: January 25, 1989

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—
President Bush's national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, has selected a handful of experienced diplomats and intelligence officers to help him coordinate foreign policy and national security affairs for the new Administration.

The new appointees will be special assistants to Mr. Bush and senior members of the staff of the National Security Council. They include Robert D. Blackwill, a former State Department official who will be in charge of European and Soviet affairs at the N.S.C. He started work there on Monday.

Mr. Blackwill, an expert on conventional arms control, served from 1985 to 1987 as the American representative at the Conference on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in central Europe. He joined the Foreign Service in 1967 and held several senior national security positions at the White House and the State Department, where he was the principal deputy assistant secretary for European affairs in 1982 and 1983.

From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Blackwill was associate dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Mr. Scowcroft's top aide for African affairs is David C. Miller Jr., a businessman with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation who served in the Reagan Administration as Ambassador to Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Appointment Causes a Stir

The new chief of intelligence programs for the National Security Council is William W. Working, a former Air Force officer who has 21 years' experience in foreign intelligence. Most recently, he has been director of program and budget for the Intelligence Community Staff, which coordinates the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department.

His appointment has caused a stir among some intelligence officers because, unlike some of his predecessors, he has had relatively little recent experience in intelligence operations.

Mr. Scowcroft selected a former intelligence officer, Virginia A. Lampley, to be director of legislative affairs for the National Security Council. Ms. Lampley, now an executive with DGA International Inc., a consulting concern in Washington, worked in the Air Force for more than nine years, including six years as an interpreter of aerial reconnaissance photographs.

She was also deputy director of Senate lobbying for the Air Force and got to know Mr. Scowcroft when he was the head of a commission studying the MX missile and other nuclear arms.

Aides to Mr. Bush reported that he was planning to name a computer services company executive, Ivan Selin, to a top position at the State Department, as Under Secretary for Management. Mr. Selin founded American Management Systems Inc. in 1970 and since then has been chairman of the company, which designs computer software for Federal agencies, banks and other big customers. Selin Holds 2 Doctorates

Mr. Selin, who holds doctorates in electrical engineering and mathematics, came to Washington in 1965 to work in the Defense Department under Robert S. McNamara, who was then Secretary. He stayed there for five years and served as chief Pentagon planner under President Richard M. Nixon. Mr. Selin is chairman of the board of governors of the United Nations Association, a private group that supports the work of international organizations and alliances.

Mr. Bush has already named Robert M. Gates as the deputy national security adviser. Mr. Gates, an expert on the Soviet Union, spent two decades at the C.I.A. and was deputy director of the agency at the end of the Reagan Administration.

The White House has not named anyone to replace Robert Pastorino as head of Latin American affairs or William J. Burns as head of Near Eastern affairs at the National Security Council. But Administration officials said that Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert on the policy planning staff of the State Department, would probably move to the National Security Council to work on Middle East peace negotiations. An Uncertain Future

Officials of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said the future of the director, William F. Burns, was uncertain. His colleagues said they expected him to leave the agency because he had heard nothing from Mr. Bush's inner circle.

Mr. Burns has been head of the agency since early 1988. Possible candidates to succeed him include Ronald F. Lehman 2d, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security policy; Sidney Graybeal, a principal negotiator of the antiballistic missile treaty, and Richard R. Burt, a former Assistant Secretary of State now serving as Ambassador to West Germany.

Robert D. Hormats, an investment banker, is being considered for the position of Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Administration officials said. Peter W. Rodman, a former director of policy planning at the State Department, is likely to remain in his position as counselor at the National Security Council, they said.